Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wiki2Touch


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 05:22, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Wiki2Touch

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Contested prod. Software with no assertion of notability. Yes, it allows the iPhone to access Wikipedia, but the article does not assert that Wikimedia had anything to do with this software. Additionally, running it requires a jailbreak. Unless reliable third-party sources can be found, it will be a delete.  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 00:10, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Don't see how it requiring a jailbreak has anything to do with anything, but I also don't see substantial coverage in reliable sources when I try to find them. I'd change pretty swiftly if someone else has better luck, however. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡ  bomb  10:07, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Lack of signifcant coverage in reliable sources means that this software fails the general notability guidelines. -- Big  Dom  20:31, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:07, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Mentioned in Mashable "30+ Apps For Jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches", otherwise the best sources I've found are Apple iPhone school and hack the iPod Touch. There may be others. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 01:14, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The similar Project of Patrick Collison got some response in the media: link to his page. At this time it was no commercial product but you had to jailbreak your phone too. Now you can get this software in the appstore. I don't like it because it has no pictures, no formulae, no templates and it is very slow. It takes usually 10 seconds to find the article.
 * So far there is now way to install Wiki2Touch without a jailbreak because of the webserver running in the background, but there is a code.google project to make it a standalone program. Still you need a way to copy your files to the iphone. Now this is done with SSH, and you need afc2add. Wiki2Touch has nothing to do with Wikimedia - the second time Blanchardb mentioned it - well, noone said something like this. Why should it? I don't know the relevance criteria for the english Wikipedia (already hate the german ones). In one month I had 37 downloads for the english wikipedia data files (1 year old) and 90 for the german one (on sourceforge). On youtube there are several videos how to install wiki2touch and generate your own database. If you like to delete it, please transfer this article to my user name space. BigDom mentioned the general notability guidelines and a lack of coverage - you decide, it might change in the future.Saiht (talk) 17:25, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * "It might change in the future" is not for us to determine. If it does change in the future, then a Wikipedia article on this software will have to wait for that future to become the present, per WP:CRYSTAL. If the software does not currently meet our notability guidelines, that means it is too soon for Wikipedia to have an article on it. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 14:19, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.